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View all search resultsXi to visit South Korea for APEC summit
Xi will deliver a speech at APEC and hold bilateral meetings with other leaders, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the ministry,said at a press briefing on Friday.
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This combination of pictures created on June 05, 2025, shows Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 8, 2025, and US President Donald Trump at US Steel - Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2025. Two two leaders held a phone call on Sept. 19, 2025. (AFP/Evgenia Novozhenina and Saul Loeb).
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hinese President Xi Jinping will visit South Korea from October 30 to November 1 for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Beijing's foreign ministry said on Friday, without confirming a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Xi will deliver a speech at APEC and hold bilateral meetings with other leaders, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the ministry,said at a press briefing on Friday.
The White House said on Thursday that Trump would have a bilateral meeting with Xi on the morning of October 30.
When asked about the meeting, Guo said China would "release further information in a timely manner".
Officials from China and the United States are due to arrive in Malaysia on Friday for another round of trade talks to calm an escalating tit-for-tat trade war.
Trump said Wednesday he was making a "big trip" to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, his first visit to the region since he returned to the White House in a blaze of tariffs and geopolitical brinkmanship.
The highlight will be his talks with Xi in South Korea, which Trump's spokeswoman confirmed would take place on October 30 on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
Trump had previously threatened to scrap the meeting amid a flare-up in the trade war between Washington and Beijing, but he said Wednesday he now hoped for a "deal on everything."
There was also a "considerable" chance that Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit, said South Korea's unification minister, Chung Dong-young.
The host nations are meanwhile set to roll out the red carpet to ensure they stay on the right side of the unpredictable 79-year-old, and win the best deals they can on tariffs and security assistance.
